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“Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.” ― Liu Cixin, Death's End
by eveningcoffee 10y ago
“Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End
- dibstern 10y agoDisagree. Counterexample: looking down the barrel of a gun "I wonder what this trigger thing does..." That quote is far too easy to find counterexamples for, because ignorance does indeed harm. There's a reason we have Darwin awards.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoLiu Cixin was talking about the survival of the humankind in the galactic context, but it possibly could be limited to a single localized culture on earth. From this perspective the example you gave does only good for the survival of the whole.